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Q: What kind of metamorphic rock splits into sheets when broken?
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What kind of solid tends to break along in straight lines?

Slate splits into sheets and is used on roofs.


What kind of solid tends to break along straight lines?

Slate splits into sheets and is used on roofs.


What kind of rock does a metamorphic rock start as?

Metamorphic rocks are formed from sedimentary rocks.


Which kind of metamorphic rock is massive and has no banding?

The type of metamorphic rock would be classified as a nonfoliated metamorphic rock, like quartzite and marble.


Gniess and slate are what kind of rock?

Metamorphic.


What kind of rock is formed with heat and pressure?

Metamorphic rocks, like slate or quartizite, or even diamonds.


Slate and marble are examples of what kind of rock family?

Slate and Marble are metamorphic rocks. Slate's parent rock is shale and Marble's parent rock is limestone.


What kind of rock can changed into metamorphic rock?

Any rock, be it igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic, can be changed into a metamorphic rock through increased pressure and/or temperature.


When rocks change form what kind of conservation is it?

metamorphic


What is a kind of foliated metamorphic rock?

Slate


Marble is a form of what kind of rock?

Metamorphic rock.


What kind of nonfolited metamorphic rock has a texture?

quartzite